LISEF 2004 Category Winners
**Indicates Best in Category = $100 award and plaques for the student & the school
| First Place - Winners Receive a Trip to ISEF | |||
| Behavioral Sciences | Henny Admoni** | John L. Miller Great Neck North High School | Counting Features: quantifying discrete parts in visual object identification |
| Jarett Goldman | Syosset High School | Modeling Presidential Character: Institutional and Non-Institutional Factors | |
| Michael Sloyer | Roslyn High School | The Effect of Visual Images and Power Phrases on Contributions to a Hunger Prevention Charity | |
| Biochemistry | Suraj Rambhia | Jericho High School | The Neuroprotective Effect of Morphine on Pesticide Induced Cellular Models of Parkinson's Disease |
| Josh Silverman** | North Shore High School | SmartGen: A New Approach to the Identification of Effective siRNAs for RNAi Gene Therapy | |
| Botany/Environmental Sciences | Carol Eisenstat | Bellmore John F. Kennedy High School | The Effects of Cytoskeletal Disrupting Agents in Gossypium hirsutum |
| Michelle Louie** | Kings Park High School | Functional Genomics: An Optimized Method for Fluorescent Tagging of Full-Length Gene Products of Unknown Function from Arabidopsis thaliana | |
| Chemistry | Kunal Shah** | Manhasset High School | Controlling the Growth of Carbon Nanotubes |
| Computer Science/Mathematics | Bruce Halperin** | Half Hollow Hills HS East | An Extension of the Dining Cryptographers Protocol to Multiparty, Simultaneous Sender-Recipient Anonymous Communication |
| Brett Harrison** | Half Hollow Hills HS West | A Proof of Seymour's Conjecture for All Oriented Graphs | |
| Engineering | Mitchell Fourman** | Ward Melville High School | Supercritial Fluids: A Novel Procedure for Increasing the Compatibility and Applications of Polymer Blends |
| Earth & Space/Physics | Yiyi Deng** | Ward Melville High School | A Novel Technique for the Quantification of Trapping Force in Optical Tweezers |
| Medicine & Health | Jonathan Birnbaum** | John L. Miller Great Neck North High School | A Comparison of Flow Through Monoleaflet and Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valves Utilizing in vitro Digital Particle Imaging Velocimetry and Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| Jason Pellegrino | Manhasset High School | Analysis of Metformin's Effect on Brain Insulin Receptors | |
| Microbiology | Daniel Choi** | Syosset High School | DNA Microarray Analysis of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Grown in a Microbial Fuel Cell |
| Zoology | Marla Diakow** | Paul D. Schreiber High School | The Utilization of Rare SNPs within the Canine Genome as a Means of Breed Identification |
| Teams | Brinda Alagesan and Yakaitis Scott | Manhasset High School | The Effects of Hsp70 Induction on the Neurodegeneration and Age of Onset of Parkinson's Disease in A30P a-synuclein and Parkin D. Melanogaster. |
| Ashish Bakshi and Eshin Jolly** | Manhasset High School | Designing a System for Versatile Semi-Autonomous Robots | |
| Chelsea Gordon and Feini Qu | Half Hollow Hills HS East | Determining the Solubility Parameters of End-Grafted Polystyrene in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide | |
| Nikhil Gupta and Amrit Das** | Manhasset High School | The Effects of Exogenously Applied Taxol and Oryazalin on Cotton Fiber Quality in G. hirsutum, Variety MD51 | |
| Samuel John and Alexander Slade | Plainview Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School | Gap Junctions and GABAergic Interactions in Inspiratory Phase Fast Oscillatory Rhythms | |
| Storm Liebling, Dustin Liebling, and Kevin Zarrabi | Smithtown High School | THE IN VITRO INHIBITION OF HUMAN NEUTROPHIL ELASTASE BY URSOLIC ACID-IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT OF CYSTIC FIBROSIS | |
| Eric Mansfield and Ezra Katz | Smithtown High School | Development of Porous Hyaluronan Scaffolds for Wound Healing Applications | |
| Sean Mehra and Jeffrey Reitman | Jericho High School | Using Nanoparticles to Enhance Polymer Properties for Improved Commercial Applications: Space Lubricants to Nanolithography | |
| Second Place | |||
| Behavioral Sciences | Michelle Ciotta | Smithtown High School | The Effects of Exposure to Media Images of the War in Iraq on High School Students in a Suburban New York Area |
| Elana Jacobs | Roslyn High School | Using Cognitive Dissonance as a Means to Affect Student Attitudes Towards Cheating | |
| Lauren Sakofsky | Roslyn High School | The Effect of Reported Popularity and Frame on Perceptions of a Political Candidate | |
| Biochemistry | Rebecca Ajodan | John L. Miller Great Neck North High School | The Effect of CI 1040, LY 294002, and ZD 1839 on the Concentrations of Metabolic Pro-Tumor Proteins in LNCaP Prostate Cancer Cells |
| Kristen Lurie | Oceanside High School | Inhibition of the Cell Division Protein FtsZ: A Novel Target of Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Discovery | |
| Botany/Environmental Sciences | Jordan Axelrad | Half Hollow Hills HS East | Effect of the Environmental Contaminants, Phosphorus, Cadmium Sulfate, and Pyrethrum on Neuroimmunomodulation in "Mytilus edulis" |
| Khaivchandra Ramjeawan** | Uniondale High School | ELIMINATION OF ARSENIC FROM WATER AND SOIL: The Use of Hyperaccumulators to Phytoremediate Arsenic Salts | |
| Chemistry | Stanley Chiang | John L. Miller Great Neck North High School | Surface Electrophoresis on Novel High-relief Microlithographic Arrays |
| Computer Science/Mathematics | David Gorski | The Wheatley School | On the Properties of Euclid Numbers |
| Rui Niu | Syosset High School | Modular Properties of Linear Recursion Sequences | |
| John Sillcox | Jericho High School | Research Regarding Numbers Which are Polygonal in At Least One Way | |
| Engineering | Aryeh Reinstein | Rambam Mesivta High School | The Design of a Selective Gas Permeable Membrane Using Supercritical Fluids |
| Earth & Space/Physics | Jason Li** | John L. Miller Great Neck North High School | A Numerical Analysis of Gravitational Lensing Events Involving Large Tidal Radius or D25 Isophote Local Group Galaxies |
| Medicine & Health | Brooke Maurer | Manhasset High School | Identification of Mutations that Contribute to Crohn's Disease in Ashkenazi Jewish Families |
| Jeremy Price | Jericho High School | Cell Culture Studies as a Model of the Interaction Between Two Inflammatory Diseases: Periodontitis and Coronary Artery Disease | |
| Microbiology | Nadia Shaikh | Lawrence High School | The Antibacterial Properties of Garlic and Its Potential as an Antibiotic Enhancer |
| Zoology | Amelia Breyre | Manhasset High School | Soybean Aphid Host-Plant Specificity |
| Teams | Michael Bisogno and Matthew Cons | Commack High School | Investigation of a New Solution State: Unusual Solution Behavior of Giant Nanosized Inorganic Ions |
| Nicholas Calluzzo and Julia Macina | Manhasset High School | The Effects of Caloric Restriction on Metabolism and its Use as a Viable Method of Life Extension. | |
| Tanmay Chheda and Andrew Song | Jericho High School | Pluronic Hydrogel as a Nucleus Pulposus Replacement in the Treatment of Herniated Discs | |
| Nicole Farella and Jonathan Nissan | The Wheatley School | A Comparison of Male and Female Learning Preferences Using Verbal and Auditory Stimuli | |
| Lindsay Fourman, Sarah Fink, and Erica Ravin | Plainview Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School | Novel Approaches to Overcome Multidrug Resistant Cancer | |
| Saumil Kachhy, Anirudh Ramesh, and Justin Sciabbarrasi | Sachem North High School | Synergistic Effects of Reduced Ampicillin Concentration and Alternative Antibacterial Agents on Bacteria | |
| Shama Patel and Helen Tsai | Manhasset High School | Evaluating the Effects of Caloric Restriction on Cognitive Aging in Caenorhabditis elegans | |
| Jason Rosenblatt and Nick Gullo | Plainview Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School | Correlation between Coaching Philosophies and an Athlete's participation and interest | |
| Third Place | |||
| Behavioral Sciences | Julia Kessler | Roslyn High School | Gender Differences in students' Academic Confidence Levels Concerning Advanced Placement Science Classes |
| Anuraag Parikh | Roslyn High School | The Impact of Price Level and Odd Pricing on Perceptions of a Restaurant | |
| Samara Weitz | Long Beach High School | A Comparison Study of Alpha Wave Intensity and Multitasking Abilities | |
| Biochemistry | Helaina Skop | Sanford H. Calhoun High School | The Identification of Genes Involved in the Formation of the Gonadal Sheath in Caenorhabditis Elegans using RNAi. |
| Kevin Wang | Ward Melville High School | A Novel Simulation Method for Protein Structure Prediction | |
| Botany/Environmental Sciences | Ajwad Bajwa | Half Hollow Hills HS West | Effects of Electricity and Ultrasound with Antibiotics on Bacillus subtilis Biofilms |
| Neil Haranhalli | Syosset High School | Analysis of Orthology and Molecular Evolution of the Carbonic Anhydrase (CAH)gene of Dioscorea species, Arabidopsis thaliana, and Oryza sativa | |
| Chemistry | David Jaung | Half Hollow Hills HS East | Covalent Immobilization of a Repeating Array of Bienzymatic Reaction Systems Assembled onto a Sol-Gel Silicate Surface to Create a Sequential Nano-Fabrication Systemv |
| Computer Science/Mathematics | Sotirios Karanikas | Manhasset High School | Using the Stirling Differential Recursive Formula to Relate Stirling Differentials with the Original Elements Used |
| Eric Paniagua | Massapequa High School | Development of a Flexible Computational Tool for the Analysis of Networks of Leaky Integrate and Fire Neurons | |
| Engineering | Noah Corwin | Syosset High School | Computer Generated Holograms |
| Earth & Space/Physics | Gayle Denman | Bellmore John F. Kennedy High School | Radiation-Force Elastography with Reflected Ultrasound Beams |
| Medicine & Health | Sarah Catanzaro | Paul D. Schreiber High School | Mineralocortocoid Hormones Accelerate Atherosclerosis in Apolipoprotein-E-Deficient Mice |
| Laura Mulvey | Carle Place High School | Interplay of Genes Regulated by Estrogen and Diindolylmethane | |
| Microbiology | Hannah Biederman | Half Hollow Hills HS West | Cloning and Developing an Agrobacterium-mediated Export System of Foreign Proteins to Plant Cells. |
| Zoology | Andrea Minella | Hauppauge High School | The Genetic Variations and Ecological Preference Differences that Influenced the Polymorphism of the Salamader, Plethodon cinereus |
| Honorable Mention | |||
| Behavioral Sciences | Naeha Chaudhry |
Syosset High School | Factors Influencing College-Aged Students' Perceptions of Racial Profiling |
| Jenna Friedenthal | Lawrence High School | Why Males Cannot Multitask: Gender Differences in Lateralized Cognition | |
| Samantha Goldman | Bellmore John F. Kennedy High School | Children's selection of sweet and high-fat foods is influenced by their inherited sensitivity to 6-n-propylthiouracil(PROP): results from a twin study | |
| Kun Li | Syosset High School | Policy-Oriented Issues Concern and Human Interest-Based Solidary Incentive as Factors in Political Activism in High School and College Level Activism | |
| Jonathan Lipsky | Jericho High School | The Associations Between Trauma and Interpersonal Maladaptive Behavior | |
| Andrew Malone | Paul D. Schreiber High School | Evaluating Loss Aversion in Riskless Choice Across Trade-Offs of Varying Value | |
| Patricia Ng | Hauppauge High School | Boning Up High School Students: A Tailored Approach to Osteoporosis Education | |
| David Randell | South Side High School | The presence of pheromones and their effects on the behavior of Isopods | |
| Biochemistry | Jeffrey Cohan | Syosset High School | Determining the Micronuclei Frequency and Sister Chromatid Exchange Rate Among Heterozygote Individuals Affected with Bloom's Syndrome |
| Sehera Himani | Jericho High School | The kinetics of antagonist binding to the 5-HT3A receptor channel | |
| Abhishek Patel | Syosset High School | Cisplatinum-Induced Apoptosis and Oxidative Stress | |
| Botany/Environmental Sciences | Diana Amari | Smithtown High School | Biological Control of Insect Pests in Stored Grain: Wolf Spiders and Toxigenic Bacteria |
| Benjamin Blanck | Bellmore John F. Kennedy High School | CCA In Pressure-Treated Wood | |
| Janalee Campbell | Uniondale High School | Natural Machinery: The use of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to Generate Hydrogen as a Fuel Source. | |
| Katherine Chiang | John L. Miller Great Neck North High School | A Novel Study of Oceanic Bacterial Activity: Alpha-Proteobacteria Enrichment in Aerosols and the Microlayer | |
| Chemistry | Amy Brazin | Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway | The Interaction of scCO2 on Organic and Inorganic Composites |
| Lamia Khan | W. Tresper Clarke High School | The Development of a High-Yielding Synthesis of Isonitriles: Explorations with Tritylisonitrile | |
| Computer Science/Mathematics | Danielle Bourguet | Paul D. Schreiber High School | Using Taylor and Maclaurin's Series to approximate square roots |
| Engineering | Noah Jakimo | Syosset High School | Design and Construction of an Affordable PCR Device |
| Hannah Zelman | Herricks High School | A Method for Improving the Accuracy of Diffusion Anisotropy Measurements by Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging | |
| Earth & Space/Physics | Andrew Alkon | Manhasset High School | Forecasting of Sea Level Rise Augmented Storm Surge in the New York Bight Region |
| Maanit Desai | John L. Miller Great Neck North High School | A Simplified Method for Characterizing Complex Media by the Coherent Backscattering of Light | |
| Medicine & Health | Daniel Kenger | Paul D. Schreiber High School | First Prototype Mouse-Enabled Web Browser For the Blind |
| Nicole Wetherell | Oceanside High School | Promiscuous interplay of the CCAAT displacement protein/cut homologue (CDP/cut)with other gene-specific transcription factors. | |
| Felicia Yen | Half Hollow Hills HS East | Molecular Analysis of Breast Cancer by cDNA Microarrays: Developing a Better Diagnosis and a Potential Cure | |
| Microbiology | Tanne Gabler | East Hampton High School | The Synthesis of Monoclonal Antibodies Against Borrelia burgdorferi |
| Uri Nazryan | Paul D. Schreiber High School | An Analytical Approach to the Changing of a Gene via Mutation | |
| Erik Willie | Locust Valley High School | Sources of Codon Usage Bias in the Human Genome | |
| Zoology | Alexander Fumelli | Smithtown High School | Inferring the Diet of a Bizarre Fossil Crocodyliform: Was Simosuchus clarki Herbivorous? |